{"id":42540,"date":"2026-08-20T14:33:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T14:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dotsoft.gr\/%ce%bd%ce%ad%ce%b1-%ce%b5%cf%80%ce%b9%cf%83%cf%84%ce%b7%ce%bc%ce%bf%ce%bd%ce%b9%ce%ba%ce%ae-%ce%b4%ce%b7%ce%bc%ce%bf%cf%83%ce%af%ce%b5%cf%85%cf%83%ce%b7-%cf%84%ce%b7%cf%82-dotsoft-%cf%83%cf%84%ce%bf-c\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T14:38:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T14:38:03","slug":"%ce%bd%ce%ad%ce%b1-%ce%b5%cf%80%ce%b9%cf%83%cf%84%ce%b7%ce%bc%ce%bf%ce%bd%ce%b9%ce%ba%ce%ae-%ce%b4%ce%b7%ce%bc%ce%bf%cf%83%ce%af%ce%b5%cf%85%cf%83%ce%b7-%cf%84%ce%b7%cf%82-dotsoft-%cf%83%cf%84%ce%bf-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dotsoft.gr\/en\/%ce%bd%ce%ad%ce%b1-%ce%b5%cf%80%ce%b9%cf%83%cf%84%ce%b7%ce%bc%ce%bf%ce%bd%ce%b9%ce%ba%ce%ae-%ce%b4%ce%b7%ce%bc%ce%bf%cf%83%ce%af%ce%b5%cf%85%cf%83%ce%b7-%cf%84%ce%b7%cf%82-dotsoft-%cf%83%cf%84%ce%bf-c\/","title":{"rendered":"DOTSOFT published in Cybersecurity Magazine: practical lessons from a real-world smart parking cybersecurity validation pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"

DOTSOFT experts share the findings of the CASPER validation activity on strengthening cyber resilience in smart city infrastructures.<\/p>\n

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An article titled “Strengthening Cyber Resilience in Smart City Infrastructures: Practical Lessons from a Real-World Smart Parking Validation Pilot (CASPER)”<\/strong> has been published in the international Cybersecurity Magazine<\/strong>, authored by Anastasios Manos<\/strong> (CEO, DOTSOFT), Despina Elisabeth Filippidou<\/strong> (Head of Innovation & R&D, DOTSOFT) and Panagiotis Paltsokas<\/strong> (AI Engineer, DOTSOFT).<\/p>\n

The article presents the practical lessons drawn from the CASPER<\/strong> validation activity, in which the AI-enhanced cybersecurity capabilities of CyberSecDome<\/strong> were assessed in a real-world smart parking environment (the INTEL ANN smart-parking environment).<\/p>\n

CASPER was carried out by DOTSOFT and PRIVACT<\/a> within the CyberSecDome<\/strong> project, funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No. 101120779<\/p>\n

Why it matters<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Smart city infrastructures combine sensors, communication networks, cloud services and citizen-facing applications into complex cyber-physical environments. That interconnection creates new attack surfaces and dependencies: an incident affecting a single component can propagate across the wider operational ecosystem, disrupting services and eroding public trust.<\/p>\n

Traditional cybersecurity approaches \u2014 focused on individual security controls or isolated technology evaluations \u2014 prove insufficient in such settings.<\/p>\n

The validation approach<\/strong><\/h3>\n

CASPER followed an evidence-oriented approach based on realistic attack scenarios and controlled attack simulations. The activity examined how CyberSecDome capabilities perform together<\/strong>: dynamic risk assessment (DRA), intrusion detection and prevention (IDPS\/IPS), automated security testing (ADAPT\/DAIR), incident management and investigation (Prophecy\/FVT, XAI), collaborative intelligence, knowledge sharing, and situational awareness through advanced visualisation (VR).<\/p>\n

Eight attack and stress scenarios<\/strong> were used, including network scanning, brute-force login attempts, SQL injection, API flooding and resource-depletion attacks, unauthorised API access, SYN-flood, and LLM-based PCAP file obfuscation.<\/p>\n

Four practical lessons<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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  1. Asset visibility matters more than individual tool capabilities. <\/strong>Without a comprehensive inventory of assets, data flows, dependencies and vulnerabilities, even advanced tools produce fragmented results.<\/li>\n
  2. Evidence-oriented validation provides better insight than isolated technical metrics. <\/strong>An alert becomes meaningful when correlated with network evidence, incident artifacts and risk-assessment outputs.<\/li>\n
  3. Controlled attack simulation remains essential <\/strong>for evaluating operational preparedness, surfacing vulnerabilities and enabling early remediation.<\/li>\n
  4. Situational awareness improves decision-making. <\/strong>Advanced visualisation does not replace cybersecurity analysis, but it strengthens operators’ understanding of incidents and their impact \u2014 and helps communicate them to C-level executives.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The takeaway<\/strong><\/h3>\n

    As the authors note, “the combined use of different tools improved the understanding of risks, threats, incidents, and operational impacts.”<\/em> Cyber resilience cannot be achieved through advanced technologies alone: detection tools and AI techniques deliver value only when connected to risk management, operational visibility, evidence-based validation and human decision support.<\/p>\n

    DOTSOFT continues to invest in research and in the development of cybersecurity solutions for critical urban infrastructures, translating experience from European research projects into operational practice.<\/p>\n

    Read the full article in Cybersecurity Magazine: <\/strong>https:\/\/cybersecurity-magazine.com\/strengthening-cyber-resilience-in-smart-city-infrastructures-practical-lessons-from-a-real-world-smart-parking-validation-pilot-casper\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    DOTSOFT experts share the findings of the CASPER validation activity on strengthening cyber resilience in smart city infrastructures. An article titled “Strengthening Cyber Resilience in Smart City Infrastructures: Practical Lessons from a Real-World Smart Parking Validation Pilot (CASPER)” has been published in the international Cybersecurity Magazine, authored by Anastasios Manos (CEO, DOTSOFT), Despina Elisabeth Filippidou […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[327],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-327"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotsoft.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotsoft.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotsoft.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotsoft.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotsoft.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dotsoft.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42541,"href":"https:\/\/dotsoft.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42540\/revisions\/42541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotsoft.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotsoft.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotsoft.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotsoft.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}